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- Astronomy and Space Now - Comprehensive Astronomy and Space Research…Updated: Thu Jul 3 16:44:11 2008
About.com's Astronomy & Space is your portal to What You Need to Know About the universe now and astronomy & space facts. From the Astronomy Picture of the Day to NASA, amateur astronomers to space… - Neil Armstrong Biography - Biography of Neil Armstrong - First Man o…Updated: Fri Jun 27 01:20:56 2008
Born on August 5, 1930 on his grandparents’ farm in Auglaize County, Ohio, Neil Armstrong was the eldest of three children of Stephen and Viola Engel Armstrong. Neil Armstrong worked at numero… - The Challenger Disaster - A Closer Look at the Challenger Disaster a…Updated: Fri Jun 27 01:01:14 2008
When the Challenger disaster occurred, it exploded killing all aboard, it shocked the nation, started a NASA investigation, and led to many changes in the shuttle program. Here, we look back at the… - Earth Pictures GalleryUpdated: Tue Jun 24 12:38:16 2008
Discover Earth Pictures and images in this Earth Pictures Gallery. These Earth pictures are awe inspiring and tell a story about our home planet, Earth… - Earth Picture - Where is La Niņa?
Updated: Tue Jun 24 12:38:12 2008
Since the weak El Niņo event of winter of 2002, the equatorial Pacific has cooled and oceanographers have been on a La Niņa "watch." Thus far, equatorial waters have seesawed between cool… - Earth Picture - World Globes, Shaded Relief and Colored Height
Updated: Tue Jun 24 12:38:11 2008
These images of the world were generated with data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). The SRTM Project has recently released a new global data set called SRTM30, where the original o… - Earth Picture - SeaWinds - Oceans, Land, Polar Regions
Updated: Tue Jun 24 12:37:11 2008
The SeaWinds scatterometer on the QuikSCAT satellite makes global radar measurements -- day and night, in clear sky and through clouds. The radar data over the oceans provide scientists and weather… - Earth Picture - SeaWinds Global Coverage with Detail of Hurricane Fl…Updated: Tue Jun 24 12:37:10 2008
The distribution of ocean surface winds over the Atlantic Ocean, based on September 1999 data from NASA's SeaWinds instrument on the Quikscat satellite, shows wind direction (white streamlines) at … - Earth Picture - The Americas and Hurricane Andrew
Updated: Tue Jun 24 12:37:10 2008
Image taken on August 25, 1992 by NOAA GOES-7 of the Americas and Hurricane Andrew. … - Earth Picture - The Americas and Hurricane Andrew
Updated: Tue Jun 24 12:37:10 2008
Image taken on August 25, 1992 by NOAA GOES-7 weather satellite of the Americas and Hurricane Andrew as it makes landfall on the Louisiana coast. … - Earth Picture - South Polar Projection of Earth
Updated: Tue Jun 24 12:37:10 2008
This view of the Earth shows a wonderfully unique but physically impossible view of the southern hemisphere and Antarctica. While a spacecraft could find itself directly over the Earth's pole, roug… - Earth Picture - The Earth and Moon
Updated: Tue Jun 24 12:37:09 2008
During its flight, the Galileo spacecraft returned images of the Earth and Moon. Separate images of the Earth and Moon were combined to generate this view. The Galileo spacecraft took the images in… - Earth Picture - The Earth-Moon System
Updated: Tue Jun 24 12:37:09 2008
Eight days after its final encounter with the Earth, the Galileo spacecraft looked back and captured this remarkable view of the Earth and Moon. The image was taken from a distance of about 6.2 mil… - Earth Picture - The Earth & Moon
Updated: Tue Jun 24 12:37:09 2008
During its flight, the Galileo spacecraft returned images of the Earth and Moon. Separate images of the Earth and Moon were combined to generate this view. The Galileo spacecraft took the images in… - SMART-1 Looks Back
Updated: Tue Jun 24 12:37:01 2008
The first picture of Earth taken by the SMART-1 spacecraft on 21 May 2004 from a distance of 70,000 kilometres. The image shows from top left, Scandinavia, Denmark, United Kingdom and clear west an… - Earth Picture - Global View of the Arctic Ocean
Updated: Tue Jun 24 12:36:00 2008
NASA researchers have new insights into the mysteries of Arctic sea ice, thanks to the unique abilities of Canada's Radarsat satellite. The Arctic is the smallest of the world's four oceans, but it… - Earth Picture - Global View of Earth in the Near-Infrared
Updated: Tue Jun 24 12:36:00 2008
This near-infrared photograph of the Earth was taken by the Galileo spacecraft at 6:07 a.m. PST on Dec. 11, 1990, at a range of about 1.32 million miles. The camera used light with a wavelength of … - Earth Picture - Global Images of Earth
Updated: Tue Jun 24 12:36:00 2008
Global images of Earth from Galileo. In each frame, the continent of Antarctica is visible at the bottom of the globe. South America may be seen in the first frame (top left), the great Pacific Oce… - Earth Picture - Planet Earth
Updated: Tue Jun 24 12:35:59 2008
Planet Earth 07/18/1995 … - Earth Picture - Pacific Ocean Surface Winds from QuikScat
Updated: Tue Jun 24 12:35:59 2008
This image shows wind speeds and direction in the Pacific Ocean on August 1, 1999, gathered by the Seawinds radar instrument flying onboard the QuikScat satellite. - This image was released in conj… - Earth Picture - Home
Updated: Tue Jun 24 12:35:59 2008
This image of the Earth is one of 60 frames taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft on Feb. 14, 1990 from a distance of approximately 4 billion miles and about 32 degrees above the ecliptic plane. - This… - Earth Picture - Planet Earth
Updated: Tue Jun 24 12:35:58 2008
Planet Earth 07/18/1995 … - Earth Picture - Planet Earth
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Planet Earth 07/18/1995 … - Earth Picture - Earthrise Over Plaskett Crater
Updated: Tue Jun 24 12:34:59 2008
The above is a view from Clementine of the full Earth over the north pole of the Moon. The crater with a central peak in the foreground is Plaskett (820N, 1740E; 110 kilometers in diameter). On Ear… - Earth Picture - Earthrise - Apollo 8
Updated: Tue Jun 24 12:34:59 2008
This view of the rising Earth greeted the Apollo 8 astronauts as they came from behind the Moon after the lunar orbit insertion burn. Earth is about five degrees above the horizon in the photo. The… - Earth Picture - Earth Globe
Updated: Tue Jun 24 12:34:59 2008
Earth Globe 11/20/1998 … - Earth Picture - First Picture of the Earth and Moon in a Single Fram…Updated: Tue Jun 24 12:34:58 2008
This picture of the Earth and Moon in a single frame, the first of its kind ever taken by a spacecraft, was recorded September 18, 1977, but NASAs Voyager 1 when it was 7.25 million miles (11.66 mi… - Earth Picture - First View of Earth from Moon
Updated: Tue Jun 24 12:34:58 2008
The world's first view of Earth taken by a spacecraft from the vicinity of the Moon. - The photo was transmitted to Earth by the United States Lunar Orbiter I and received at the NASA tracking stat… - Earth Picture - Full Earth
Updated: Tue Jun 24 12:34:58 2008
View of the Earth as seen by the Apollo 17 crew traveling toward the Moon. This translunar coast photograph extends from the Mediterranean Sea area to the Antarctica South polar ice cap. This is th… - Earth Picture - Earth - full disk view of Africa
Updated: Tue Jun 24 12:33:58 2008
This color image of the Earth was obtained by the Galileo spacecraft on Dec. 11, 1990, when the spacecraft was about 1.5 million miles from the Earth. The color composite used images taken through … - Earth Picture - Earth - India and Australia
Updated: Tue Jun 24 12:33:57 2008
This color image of the Earth was obtained by the Galileo spacecraft on Dec. 11, 1990, when the spacecraft was about 1.5 million miles from the Earth. The color composite used images taken through … - Earth Picture - Earth - Moon Conjunction
Updated: Tue Jun 24 12:33:57 2008
On December 16, 1992, 8 days after its encounter with Earth, the Galileo spacecraft looked back from a distance of about 6.2 million kilometers (3.9 million miles) to capture this remarkable view o… - Earth Picture - Earth - Pacific Ocean
Updated: Tue Jun 24 12:33:57 2008
This color image of the Earth was obtained by Galileo at about 6:10 a.m. Pacific Standard Time on Dec. 11, 1990, when the spacecraft was about 1.3 million miles from the planet during the first of … - Earth Picture - Earth and Moon as viewed by Mariner 10
Updated: Tue Jun 24 12:33:57 2008
Mariner 10 was launched on November 3, 1973, 12:45 am PST, from Cape Canaveral on an Atlas/Centaur rocket (a reconditioned Intercontinental Ballistic Missile - ICBM). Within 12 hours of launch the … - Earth Picture - Earth from Apollo 8
Updated: Tue Jun 24 12:33:56 2008
This is how the Earth looked as photographed from a point near the Moon by the Apollo 8 astronauts. The Earth fills less than one percent of the frame exposed through 80mm lens. North is approximat… - Earth Picture - Earth and Moon as viewed from Mars
Updated: Tue Jun 24 12:33:56 2008
This is the first image of Earth ever taken from another planet that actually shows our home as a planetary disk. Because Earth and the Moon are closer to the Sun than Mars, they exhibit phases, ju… - Earth From Mars
Updated: Tue Jun 24 12:33:52 2008
This is the first image ever taken of Earth from the surface of a planet beyond the Moon. It was taken by the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit one hour before sunrise on the 63rd Martian day, or sol, … - Earth Picture - Adios EarthUpdated: Tue Jun 24 12:32:57 2008
Well on its way to the Red Planet, Europe's Mars Express snapped this shot of Earth from a distance of about 8 million km (5 million miles). … - Earth Picture - Atlantic Ocean Surface Winds from QuikScat
Updated: Tue Jun 24 12:32:57 2008
This image shows wind speeds and direction in the Atlantic Ocean on August 1, 1999, gathered by the Seawinds radar instrument flying onboard the QuikScat satellite. - This image was released in con… - Earth Picture - Distant Earth and Moon
Updated: Tue Jun 24 12:32:57 2008
This picture of the Earth and Moon in a single frame, the first of its kind ever taken by a spacecraft, was recorded September 18, 1977, by NASAs Voyager 1 when it was 11.66 million km (7.25 millio… - Earth Picture - Earth - Departing Image by GalileoUpdated: Tue Jun 24 12:32:56 2008
This color image of the Earth was taken by the Galileo spacecraft on December 11 as it departed on its 3-year flight to Jupiter, about 2 1/2 days after the second Earth flyby. The distance to Earth… - Distant Earth and Moon
Updated: Tue Jun 24 12:32:51 2008
This picture of the Earth and Moon in a single frame, the first of its kind ever taken by a spacecraft, was recorded September 18, 1977, by NASAs Voyager 1 when it was 11.66 million km (7.25 millio…